Nooksack Valley Vertical #4
Artist
Phil Schwab
MediumCedar
Dimensions56 x 3 x 9 in. (142.2 x 7.6 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
There is no artist's statement to give us clues as to his intent, but despite the medium, there is the suggestion of something geologic or geographic going on here. Like a map or a view in cross section of layers of earth, this work documents either a violent event buried in some previous time or perhaps a fault line waiting to shift in the future. A flaw exists in the otherwise orderly arrangement of things.
John Gossage